As the 32 league owners, their head coaches and top executives scurry to catch flights home from Dana Point, Calif., NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Competition Committee co-chairmen Rich McKay and Jeff Fisher filled us in on what else transpired in the board room.

The details are here, courtesy of ESPN.com's John Clayton. Of greatest import to all you draft geeks: Starting in 2010, picks 21-90 will be determined by how deep a team goes into the playoffs, not just their records.

The 31st and 32nd picks will still go to the Super Bowl losers and champs, respectively. But the teams picking 21st through 24th, for example, will be the teams who lose the four wild-card games, regardless of their regular-season records.

Besides the earlier news regarding rules changes, the biggest subject Goodell was pressed to address as the NFL concluded its annual meetings outside of Los Angeles earlier Wednesday pertained to extending the regular season from 16 to 17 or 18 games as early as 2011.

Goodell is all for it, for a variety of reasons. Not the least of which is his acknowledgment that four preseason games is a farce, especially with more and more teams barely playing their star players in these exhibitions.

Let the debates with the NFL Players Association begin with the new CBA negotiations soon to commence. Many issues about the longer sked are sure to be hotly contested, including the more susceptible to serious injury players become the more worn down they are.